The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

I was determined to know beans.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.